When to start planting perennials
Why Fall Is The BEST Time to Plant Perennials
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what is going on Fran welcomes to
another very exciting episode right here
on me on my gardener channel I am so
excited about today's episode because
I'm gonna sharing with you all my
favorite season to transplant perennials
that is right fall is my favorite season
to transplant perennials I am so excited
about when fall comes because I've
always got stuff I'm putting in the
ground and it I always wait until fall
if I can because fall is so much
superior to spring and so I don't think
I want to explain why and I do want to
get to planting as well so we're gonna
plan up some currants and gooseberries
that I've had in containers for two
years really to get them in the ground
but I wanted to first talk about why
fall is my favorite season because I
really think that I might change a lot
of your minds so one of the downsides to
planting in the spring is if you're
planting obviously if you're planting
bare root or from a container you're
planting you're planting the plant in
the spring so often we plant our plants
bare root or container doesn't matter in
the spring early spring when you're
encouraged to do so and then what
happens is it comes out of dormancy and
then a frost and early frost or I guess
a late frost comes and knocks it all out
so then what happens is the plant is
either set back a very long time or it
dies completely because all of that
energy that just went into growing just
got knocked out and so that really
discourages a lot of gardeners because
you know because you've killed a plant
and before you could even get a chance
to grow it you know that's the most
frustrating thing whereas in the fall
the plant is already kind of preparing
your dormant the weather has gotten
colder the Sun is lower in the sky it
naturally is preparing to go into
dormancy even though it's again in a
container so then once you plant it it
has all winter all remaining fall plus
winter plus early spring to get
established and that means a far better
plant that's going to come out of
dormancy a lot easier and a lot more
naturally once the plant has enough you
know warm days to come out of dormancy
so you have a better chance of that plus
you have a lot less chance of losing the
plant if it heats up really quickly at
the spring so many times I see this
happen where someone plants a plant and
then the spring just turns right in the
summer here in Michigan
happens all the time and what happens is
it gets so hot that then a plant dies of
heat stress in the fall obviously that's
not a problem because it's much cooler
so the plant can be acclimated a little
more gradually to those growing
conditions another thing is obviously
watering people forget to water well one
of the downsides to forgetting to water
is that usually the plant will die
because the root fibers dry out once the
root fibers dry out the plant is dead
there's no bringing it back once the
root fibers dry out especially bare root
you have a little bit of forgiveness
with a container-bound plant but in a
bare root it's gone so in this in the
fall what happens is you get a lot more
rain it's pretty much equal if not more
to springtime weather when it comes to
rain because we just get so much we get
so much more rain in the fall then we do
in your late spring when you be planting
so it's just something to consider that
when you plant it in the fall if you do
forget to water it's got it it's got
plenty of water the ground right now is
saturated we've had like a whole week of
rain which is why it's been hard to get
out and do videos so those are reasons
why I really love to plant in the fall
if I can and the final reason why fall
is just so superior to planting in the
spring is because the deals are usually
better on perennials if you're someone
who wants to save money plant in the
fall I can't tell you how many times
I've gone to my nursery and seen apple
trees and peach trees and pear trees
they're still alive they might be a
little stressed but they're still alive
and they're like 50 to 75 percent off
because they're like look we do not want
these anymore get get them gone like
who's gonna be planting these I'm
thinking myself I'm planting these like
this is a great deal this is a good time
to get plants so you can save a ton of
money because there's these people are
not wanting to carry these through
another year so you can get a mega deal
on a lot of your plants this doesn't
even mean just edibles I've seen things
like Arbor vitaes be like 50 to 75
percent off at our local nurseries
because they're just clearing them out
so you can save a ton of money and plant
them now I think there's a really common
misconception that spring is the only
time to play
and I think the thing doing the biggest
disservice to that is all these
magazines
no there's nothing against them I think
they're you know they're fun just to
look through the problem is they
advertise them a lot of times with like
seeds and you know new plants and
nurseries often will will send out
catalogs and things like that and they
make it seem like spring is the only
time to plan because they're really
advertising that you know that spring
fever mentality spring is arriving I
want to get outside I want to get my
garden started I want to plant and it's
not that you're going to have you know
it's not that you're not going to have
success planting in the spring
it's just that fall offers so much
better chances for success but they're
just not marketing I mean how often if
you had a catalog saying make sure to
buy your apple trees for fall planting
never seen it now you do see things like
tulips and other other bulbs and stuff
those are typically advertised for fall
planting but so are things like garlic
so it doesn't really count I'm talking
about fruit trees fruit bushes things
like that get them in the ground now
now is the best time to plant so with
that out of the way I hope I changed
your mind let me know the comments box
below if I did change your mind and and
and maybe you know maybe chime in too if
you've been planting in the fall and the
results that you've had doing it we've
had nothing but success in fact out of
10 plants we've planted in the fall ten
of them had survived that are still
growing now in fact I drove by our our
old house where we had our our little
mini orchard planted and they're still
surviving we planted those in the fall
so I'm just you and know that was eight
years ago so those are still growing in
fact there are a whole lot taller now
they're actually about they had to been
about three to five feet taller than me
so it was really cool to see them still
live I'm glad the homeowner didn't cut
them down so a little sidetrack
let's get planting I am really excited
about this so let's go so I had these
currents and gooseberries in these pots
because I was I was kind of nurturing
them back to to life they were really
stressed and I didn't want to plant them
in the spring so I was worried I'd lose
them if they got any more stressed so I
kept them in their pots and that's often
a tactic that I've I've implemented with
a with really good successes
if you nurture our plants in a pot it
has a better chance of surviving if you
keep it in the pot then sometimes moving
it so quickly sometimes there is a
reason to move it you know if it's
really really stressed and you know
you're going to lose if it stays in the
pot but if it's showing signs of just
moderate stress sometimes it's better
just to leave it because that additional
move sometimes is just enough stress to
kill it and you can see just how
beautiful this soil is I mean in the
springtime not only are we talking about
just standing water in and mud because
it's all thawing and it's hard to dig a
hole too and that's another thing is
that often you know when it's the best
time to plant in the spring you still
can't plant because there's there's
frost that frost layer still is is down
in even five or six inches deep in the
soil and you've got to get down say a
foot or so down in the soil to get the
root ball down there you're just not
gonna you're not going to unless you
have a jackhammer so just you know other
things to consider
alright there's about perfect
this is a a row vada redcurrant so
really excited about getting these
currents and gooseberries in our garden
there's just not enough not enough of
them around I don't see a lot of people
growing currants and gooseberries in
there one of my favorite fruits honestly
I really love them and one of the last
things I'm going to do after I'm done
backfilling is I'm actually going to
water this in it might seem crazy after
I just said how much rain we're getting
but it's really important because you
have to remember all of this soil we
just dug up it's all been displaced it's
all in clumps as you can see all those
clumps there they hold a lot of oxygen
and a lot of oxygen is not good for root
development it really actually is
counterproductive to root development
having good oxygenation is important in
the soil but that's once the soil has
already kind of compressed and reduced
those larger air pockets which can
actually inhibit root growth so it's
there's a fine line between too much and
too little
and when you disturb your soil it gets
all these these big clumps in here and
that causes a lot of air pockets and
watering will help to read you know
it'll help to reduce those air pockets
it'll help to increase the settling and
just to make things go back to normal
again a lot quicker and it'll also help
to just kind of fill in every every
little looking cranny around the roots
that I might have missed when I was
backfilling so that there's a lot more
contact with the native soil so that
this plant cannot can get accustomed to
its growing conditions a lot quicker so
just something you always have to do
whether it's fall or spring it's
important to give these a good watering
in so that is why fall is my favorite
time to plant perennials I really hope
you enjoyed I hope you learned something
new I've got to get one more planted up
so I got a run but I hope you all enjoy
hope you learned somebody new and as
always this is luke from the my gardener
channel reminding you to grow big or go
home
catch y'all later see ya bye
